Out-of-Bounds Affecting elfutils package, versions [,0.168)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.99% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELFUTILS-2334934
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-10254  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade elfutils to version 0.168 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The allocate_elf function in common.h in elfutils before 0.168 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

CVSS Scores

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